Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel

Lars Marowsky-Bree
2005-12-05T11:40:49Z

On 2005-12-05T12:34:20, Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org> wrote:

> > Anyway, good luck to you.
> >
> > The current 2.6.x.y-stable series is quite sane, because they are
> > essentially just fixing very critical bugs in very recent kernels, with
> > little back porting effort.
>
> I agree it is sane. The problem is that it does not exist for long enough.
> When you have 2.6.14.X working perfectly and you need a fix for a newly
> discovered security fix which only exists in 2.6.15.Y, then you have to
> leave 2.6.14 and enter 2.6.15. That is the problem, because for just a
> fix, you change megabytes of source code which will bring their equivalent
> in bugs.

As I said, please, go on maintaining a release for a longer period of
time.

Sincerely,
Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@suse.de>

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